Financial and Social Emergency Support Package
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It is a poignant moment as I call the shadow Chancellor to make what might be his final speech fr...
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.
On Monday, the Prime Minister ordered the 21-day lockdown ...
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In reference to mixed messages, does my right hon. Friend agree that there is a mixed message fro...
I will come on to the issue of repatriation, but let me mention it now. All of us now have consti...
I do hope this is not my right hon. Friend’s last outing at the Dispatch Box. I very much thank h...
I welcome some of the reassurances that we have heard from the Prime Minister and others today, b...
My right hon. Friend mentioned profiteering a short while ago. There are very unscrupulous retail...
Profiteering businesses need to recognise that reputational damage to their operations will last ...
Does the shadow Chancellor agree that businesses that refuse to close should be subject to closur...
The Government must get serious now, at this stage in the attack by the virus. Therefore, sanctio...
My right hon. Friend may not be aware of reports that the Government have announced that they wil...
A bit of practice that has crept into our politics recently is that announcements are made at pre...
For clarity, Robert Peston is saying that the Government have confirmed, that the Prime Minister ...
I support the words of Mr Speaker last week, when he made clear the practices that Ministers shou...
I want to take this opportunity to thank my right hon. Friend and the Leader of the Opposition fo...
I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s words. We have asked for a while, not least when we put forwar...
Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Government need to ensure that anyone who was laid off b...
The problem we have, as my hon. Friend points out, is that this is a voluntary scheme for employe...
Will my right hon. Friend congratulate the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee on ...
It demonstrates that naming and shaming works, and at some time in the future I might drink to th...
Not in Wetherspoons.
Not necessarily.
Lay-offs are happening at scale, as I said, and hon. Members have mentione...
I thank the shadow Chancellor for giving way again; he has been extremely generous. Coming back t...
I am grateful for the intervention, if only because it enabled me to have a drink, but it was a u...
I begin by offering the deepest thanks and praise of all of us in this House for all those workin...
I have to correct the record. It was not a paean to the power of the free market; actually, I was...
I will of course take that point for the record. Let me in turn pay my own tribute to the power o...
Let me ask the Minister for, I think, the fifth time today, what action are the Government consid...
To put it simply, none of those individuals ought to be going to work at this time; the Governmen...
I accept what the Minister is saying, but during my contribution I referred to the email that I r...
I take that point to heart. If the right hon. Gentleman sends me the details, I will write to him...
My ex has been sent a letter from his employer saying, “We want to put you on the 80% but we don’...
I can confirm that other Government Departments, alongside my own, will have heard the hon. Gentl...
Will the Minister advise Members as to whether local authorities will be given full information a...
I can of course commit that we will share that information whenever we have the full dataset avai...
I will give way in one moment. We expect a formal practice direction to the courts imminently, un...
I thank the Minister for finishing his sentence so that I heard that last bit, as it was helpful....
I will write to the hon. Lady with full details on that point and make that letter public. That i...
I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor for raising the point I raised w...
I thank the hon. Lady for her suggestion, which will have been heard. I can confirm that free sch...
The Minister said that only children of parents who are engaged in essential services should be g...
It is key workers only. I have to correct the hon. Gentleman. It is only those who are doing the ...
Will the Minister give way?
I think I must move on.
Once this crisis is passed, the United Kingdom can re-emerge with p...
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I am most grateful to you for granting this point of order. Robe...
Quite rightly, emotions are running very high, and quite rightly, Members have been asking what m...
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Following what the SNP spokesman just said, may we as...
I will be quite honest. This is a time when people in the United Kingdom expect the parties to co...
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I echo the sentiments you just outlined—this is a tim...
It would take us through probably to next Tuesday.
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I rise to seek your advice further to what has just b...
In fairness, I am a servant of the House, and the House will decide whether we sit or do not sit....
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I absolutely agree that, at this time of national cri...
If we were to sit tomorrow, no doubt somebody might wish to table an urgent question. I will leav...
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment that this i...
Would the hon. Gentleman like to make a point of order?
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Is it within your powers to suspend this sitting whil...
I suspect the answer will be that the Prime Minister is not ready to tell the House. I suspect th...
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I wonder whether I can be as helpful as possible to t...
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. You made it very clear in your statement exactly how ...
It is very important. Ian Blackford, did you want to come back on this?
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I am very grateful for the statement from the Leader ...
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I understand some of the difficulties, but perhaps we...
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Yesterday, the Health Secretary held a very innovativ...
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. This is deeply unfortunate. I fully understand the wo...
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. The Leader of the House is an honourable man. There i...
I will come back to the Leader of the House. I think it is quite clear that those channels should...
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. If I may respond immediately to the point about what ...
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. A very clear request was made by my right hon. Friend...
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. The Leader of the House says that it is not possible ...
The only thing I would say in their defence is that I do not think there was much detail in Pesto...
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. My right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition has...
I think the Leader of the House has a note that he might be able to share.
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Inspiration has come to me. It is possible for verbal...
On that basis, I am going to put some questions. Somebody has asked why we cannot suspend. We can...